Germany: Asylum Seekers Make Demands

"Human traffickers and the media in their home countries are making promises that do not correspond to reality." — Hans-Joachim Ulrich, regional refugee coordinator.

The migrants said they were angry they were being asked to sleep in a huge warehouse rather than in private apartments. Hamburg officials say there are no more vacant apartments in the city. "The city lied to us. We were shocked when we arrived here," said Syrian refugee Awad Arbaakeat.

"One of the men, who spoke broken German, said they [a family of asylum seekers from Syria] were not interested in viewing the property because I am a woman... I was taken aback. You want to help and then are sent away, unwanted in your own country." — Aline Kern, real estate agent.

"I man. You woman. I go first." — Muslim male with a full shopping cart at the supermarket.

An asylum seeker from Somalia successfully sued the German Agency for Migration and Refugees for taking too long to process his application -- 16 months. The agency said it currently has a backlog of 250,000 unprocessed applications.

Seventy percent of migrants from Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria who were offered apprenticeships fail to complete them. According to the director of the Munich Chamber of Trade, many young migrants believe apprenticeships are beneath them.

Asylum seekers are increasingly using tactics such as hunger strikes, lawsuits and threats of violence in efforts to force German authorities to comply with an ever-growing list of demands.

Many migrants, unhappy with living conditions in German refugee shelters, are demanding that they immediately be given their own homes or apartments. Others are angry that German bureaucrats are taking too long to process their asylum applications. Still others are upset over delays in obtaining social welfare payments.

Although most asylum seekers in Germany have a roof over their head, and receive three hot meals a day, as well as free clothing and healthcare, many are demanding: more money, more comfortable beds, more hot water, more ethnic food, more recreational facilities, more privacy — and, of course, their own homes.

Germany will receive as many as 1.5 million asylum seekers in 2015, including 920,000 in the last quarter of 2015 alone, according to government estimates. This figure is nearly double the previous estimate, from August, which was 800,000 for all of 2015. By comparison, Germany received 202,000 asylum seekers in all of 2014.

With refugee shelters across the country already filled to capacity, and more than 10,000 new migrants entering Germany every day, Germany is straining to care for all the newcomers, many of whom are proving to be ungrateful and impatient guests.

In Berlin, 20 asylum seekers sued the State Agency for Health and Social Welfare (Landesamt für Gesundheit und Soziales, Lageso) in an effort to force local authorities to speed up their welfare payments.

Berlin expects to receive 50,000 asylum seekers in 2015. German taxpayers will spend 600 million euros ($680 million) this year to pay for their upkeep.

Also in Berlin, more than 40 migrants, mostly from Pakistan, seized control over the observation deck of the city's television tower and demanded stays of deportation, jobs, and exemptions from mandatory residence (Residenzpflicht), a legal requirement that asylum seekers reside within certain boundaries defined by local immigration authorities. More than 100 police were deployed to the tower to remove the protesters. After a brief questioning, they were set free. Police said no crime had been committed because the migrants had purchased tickets to the observation deck, some 200 meters (650 feet) above the Berlin.

In the Kreuzberg district of Berlin, more than 400 migrants, mostly from Africa, occupied an abandoned school because they no longer wanted to live in tents in a nearby square. When 900 police arrived to clear the building, some migrants poured gasoline inside the structure and threatened to set themselves on fire, while others threatened to jump off the roof of the building. "We are currently negotiating with local authorities about how to proceed," a Sudanese migrant named Mohammed said. "We will not leave until our demands [amending German asylum laws so they can remain in the country] are met."

In Dortmund, 125 migrants complained about the "catastrophic conditions" at the Brügmann sports facility, which now serves as a refugee shelter. The list of complaints included: bad food, uncomfortable beds and not enough showers.

Just hours after arriving in Fuldatal, 40 asylum seekers from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Syria complained about conditions at a refugee shelter there and demanded that they be given their own homes. The regional refugee coordinator, Hans-Joachim Ulrich, said that migrants are coming to Germany with unrealistic expectations. "Human traffickers and the media in their home countries are making promises that do not correspond with reality," he said.

In Hamburg, more than 70 asylum seekers went on a hunger strike in an effort to pressure local authorities to provide them with better housing. "We are on a hunger strike," said Syrian refugee Awad Arbaakeat. "The city lied to us. We were shocked when we arrived here." The migrants said they were angry they were being asked to sleep in a huge warehouse rather than in private apartments. Hamburg officials say there are no more vacant apartments in the city, the second-largest in Germany.

Also in Hamburg, more than 100 migrants gathered in front of the city hall to protest the lack of heating in their tent shelters. City officials said they were caught off guard by the early frost and that all tents would have heating before the winter sets in. According to Hamburg Mayor Olaf Scholtz, some 3,600 migrants would be spending the coming winter in tents due to the lack of alternative housing in the city.

According to Hamburg officials, 35,021 migrants arrived in the city during the first nine months of 2015. During this same period, Hamburg police were dispatched to the city's refugee shelters more than 1,000 times, including 81 times to break up mass brawls, 93 times to investigate physical and sexual assaults, and 28 times to prevent migrants from committing suicide.

Meanwhile, a confidential document that was leaked to the German newspaper Bildreveals that the Hamburg transit authority (Hamburger Verkehrsverbund, HVV) has ordered ticket inspectors to "look the other way" whenever they encounter migrants who are using public transportation without a ticket. The move ostensibly aims to protect the HVV against "bad press."

According to the leaked document, ticket inspectors should be lenient with asylum seekers because many migrants are "the victims of professional counterfeit ticket scammers" and many others have "barely comprehensible knowledge" of the HVV's tariff structure.

The CDU's transportation expert, Dennis Thering, said the HVV's policy cannot be left unchallenged. "This 'look-the-other-way' policy must be withdrawn. In Hamburg there is the opportunity to purchase discounted HVV tickets, explicitly also for persons who receive benefits under the Asylum Seekers Benefits Act." Every newly arrived refugee receives 149 euros in pocket money every month. This includes 25.15 euros that have been earmarked for the purchase of transport tickets.

In Halle, four security guards were injured when they tried to stop a mob of asylum seekers from Africa and Syria from entering the city's social welfare office before opening hours. The migrants, who were there to pick up their welfare payments, became angry when it appeared to them as though some migrants cut in front of the line. It later turned out that some migrants were there for other business, and thus were not required to stand in line.

In Munich, 30 migrants went on a hunger strike to protest shared accommodations in refugee shelters. Two of the men were rushed to the hospital after losing consciousness. "A constitutional state cannot allow itself to be blackmailed," Bavarian politician Marcel Huber said. "We have zero tolerance for this action."

In Nürnberg, six migrants from Afghanistan, Ethiopia and Iran went on a hunger strike to protest the rejection of their asylum applications. The men, who are living in a tent in downtown Nürnberg for several months, demanded to speak to local authorities. The asylum applications were rejected six years ago, but the men are still living in Germany.

In Osnabrück, an asylum seeker from Somalia successfully sued the German Agency for Migration and Refugees (Bundesamt für Migration und Flüchtlinge, BAMF) for taking too long to process his application. A judge ordered the BAMF to make a decision on his application within three months or provide him with financial compensation.

The man said he had been waiting for 16 months to get an answer from the BAMF. In its defense, the BAMF said it currently has a backlog of 250,000 unprocessed applications, and this number is expected to skyrocket as more asylum seekers arrive in Germany.

A spokesperson for the court said the ruling set a precedent, and that many more asylum seekers likely would file lawsuits against the BAMF in the near future.

Groups of migrants across Germany have been launching hunger strikes, demanding more money, more comfortable beds, more hot water, more ethnic food, more recreational facilities, and their own homes. In Berlin (right), 900 police were needed to remove more than 400 migrants who had occupied an abandoned school.

In Walldorf, a town in the state of Baden-Württemberg, a group of migrants demanded that local authorities immediately provide them with private apartments because they were tired of living in a refugee shelter with 200 other asylum seekers. The leader of the group, a 46-year-old refugee from Syria, said he expected more from Germany. It was high time for Germans to begin to "treat us like human beings," he said.

Following up on the complaints, state and local authorities inspected the shelter and found that conditions there were "absolutely acceptable," with cubicles for privacy and plenty of food and clothing.

In Wetzlar, a city in the state of Hesse, migrants threatened to go on a hunger strike in an effort to force local authorities to move them into permanent housing. Local authorities said they delays were due to a quarantine after several migrants were found to be infected with Hepatitis A.

In Zweibrücken, 50 asylum seekers from Syria went on a hunger strike to protest the slow pace of the application approval process. "We can accept the living conditions in the refugee camp, but we need hope," one of the men said. Local officials said the process has collapsed because of the large number of applicants.

Asylum seekers have also gone on hunger strikes in Birkenfeld, Böhlen, Gelsenkirchen, Hannover, Walheim, and Wittenberg.

Meanwhile, teachers at Gemeinschaftsschule St. Jürgen, a grade school in the northern German city of Lübeck, ordered eighth graders to spend a morning at a local refugee shelter and "actively help" the migrants by making their beds, sorting their clothing and working in the kitchen.

Some parents complained that their children are also being asked to bring gifts and food for the migrants, who are already receiving handouts financed by German taxpayers. A woman wrote: "Sometimes I do not even know how I am going to put food on my own table."

Another woman wrote: "This is going too far. Students are supposed to make beds and do cleaning work at a refugee shelter. My friend's 14-year-old son is being asked to do this!!! I am not an agitator and I am tolerant, but this is going way too far. Is there now a new course in Lübeck schools called: Slavery???

The school's principal, Stefan Pabst, said the negative reaction was a "catastrophe." He said that having the children work in a refugee shelter was the best way for them to "understand social behavior." The German newsmagazine, Stern, complained that the dissenting parents belong to "rightwing circles" and are "spreading their stupid slogans."

In Bad Kreuznach, a family of asylum seekers from Syria made an appointment to view a four-room rental property but refused to see the house because the real estate agent was female. According to real estate agent Aline Kern:

"One of the men, who spoke broken German, said they were not interested in viewing the property because I am a woman, I am blonde, and because I looked the men into their eyes. This was inappropriate. My company should send a man to show the property.

"I was taken aback. You want to help and then are sent away, unwanted in your own country."

In Idar-Oberstein, a town in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, an imam at a refugee shelter refused to shake the hand of Julia Klöckner, a visiting dignitary, because she is a woman. After Klöckner, the vice-chairwoman of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), shared her experience with the German newsmagazine Focus, she received more than 800 emails from women across the country describing how they, too, have been mistreated by Muslim migrants.

Klöckner is now calling for Germany to pass a new law that requires migrants and refugees to integrate into German society. She said: "We need an integration law. We are a liberal and free country. If we give up the foundations of our liberality, we will wake up in a different country."

Klöckner insists that migrants must be informed about German "rules of the game" from the first day they arrive in the country. "The people who want to stay here must, from the first day, accept and learn that in this country religions coexist peacefully and that we cannot use force to resolve conflicts," she said.

One woman described how Muslim men repeatedly cut in front of her at the supermarket checkout line. "Twice while shopping at a German supermarket I was shown that I am a second-class citizen," she wrote. In one instance, an adult Muslim male with a full shopping cart cut in front of her. In broken German he said: "I man. You woman. I go first." In another instance, a young Muslim male elbowed the woman while cutting in front of her. "When I said that I would let him go ahead of me if he asked me for permission, I was instructed by his sister that boys do not need to ask, they just demand."

A teacher at a vocational school wrote: "The most problematic students are Muslim males, who do not acknowledge the authority of female teachers and who disrupt the classes."

A mother reported that during a visit to her daughter's school, she approached a fully-veiled female refugee and asked her if she could be of help to her. "A man with a fancy suit and a three-day beard, he seemed like out of a Hugo Boss fashion magazine, said: 'My wife does not speak the language of the unclean.' When I asked him who here was unclean, he said I was. I asked him what that means. He said it was nothing against me personally, because all German women are unclean, and that his wife should not speak the language of the unclean, so that she can remain clean."

In Berlin, more than 150 migrant youths from North Africa and Eastern Europe are occupied as full-time purse-snatchers and pick-pockets. Also known as the klau-kids (thief kids), they post their gains (smart phones, laptops, designer sunglasses) on the Internet, presumably to taunt the police. A 16-year-old known as Ismat O. has been detained more than 20 times on suspicion of theft, but each time he has been released. Walid K. has been arrested more than 10 times, and also freed.

According to the director of Berlin's police union, Bodo Pfalzgraf, "it is incomprehensible that such serial offenders do not remain in pre-trial detention." Police say the youths are released because German judges are not prepared to issue arrested warrants for so-called petty crimes such as purse-snatching. Meanwhile, youths can only be deported if they have been sentenced to at least three years in prison.

In Bavaria, the Munich Chamber of Trade (Handwerkskammer München und Oberbayern) reported that 70% of migrants from Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria who have been offered apprenticeships fail to complete them. The normal dropout rate is 25%. According to the director of the chamber, Lothar Semper, many young migrants believe apprenticeships are beneath them. "We have to make a tremendous effort to convince young people that they should even begin an apprenticeship," he said. "Many have the expectation of quickly earning a lot of money in Germany."

Soeren Kern is a Senior Fellow at the New York-basedGatestone Institute. He is also Senior Fellow for European Politics at the Madrid-based Grupo de Estudios Estratégicos / Strategic Studies Group. Follow him onFacebook and onTwitter. His first book,Global Fire, will be out in early 2016.

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110 Reader Comments

Andre Thomsen • Nov 20, 2016 at 00:34

Ms Merkel made the fateful decision based on emotion after the published photo of the Kurdish boy washed up on the beach in Turkey. As a result Germany has now been irreversibly changed forever. In 20 years the people who were allowed to march across Europe to enter Germany, Austria and Sweden will not have assimilated or become productive citizens of a welcoming country. They will be loyal to their religion, the so called religion of peace. If you need proof look at Belgium, the Netherlands and France. These people are not attracted by liberal democracy, or western values but welfare.

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Harry • Jan 28, 2016 at 03:10

Merkel's master plan was to invite Syrians to Germany in order to supply cheap labour to the German economy. Plus of course to keep wages low for native Germans. The rejects were to be shunted off to the rest of the EUSSR. Including the UK if we are still in.All went wrong when a whole lot more than expected turned up.Her ignorance of "normal" culture and "sport" of these people is astoundingThe events on NYE are not an aberration, I have seen this behaviour myself in the Middle East years ago. Just talking to them won't change them either.The cheek of this woman is amazing. Having unilaterally invited this lot in, she expects everyone else to pick up the pieces.Moves are already afoot to enable these people to be transferred to the UK by modifying the Dublin rules. The rejects and rapists.If you have wives and daughters vote for BREXIT.

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Ulrike Agne • Nov 17, 2015 at 01:25

I think Germany does not know what it has gotten itself into. The full impact of this "Mutter Theresa" attitude will hit after some time. The mind set of these people is very different from ours -- there is hardly any respect whatsoever for law and order. Civic sense is barely present. To save people from terror is ok as long as you have time to spend on them to integrate them in our society -- but uncontrolled influx of people with a completely different and to us sometimes weird mind set means disaster.

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Mark • Oct 30, 2015 at 17:23

When 900 police arrived to clear the building, some migrants poured gasoline inside the structure and threatened to set themselves on fire, while others threatened to jump off the roof of the building. "We are currently negotiating with local authorities about how to proceed,"

Don't police have matches or lighters?

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Der Fuehrer • Oct 30, 2015 at 14:57

If those people ever get separated in their own homes/apartments, then they will not be monitored -- so a small fraction of them will start to create gangs and groups -- and develop weapons of destruction. Then the real danger will come in Germany -- bombings, explosions, kidnappings, rapes, hostages, missing persons. Some of the new homes will become warehouses for stolen goods and so on. Angela Merkel will fall and right-wing parties will come again to power, old people now remember how it was to shout "sieg heil" and teach this to young people. You have been warned.

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Charles Emelogu • Oct 30, 2015 at 11:15

I honestly wonder what the Germans think they are doing: taking in so many able-bodied frauds who say they are threatened in their home country. Is Germany unaware of Al-Baghdadi's boast that he would flood Europe with Jihadists? How can Germany be not only accepting all-comers blindly but also foolishly. What signs does Germany need to understand that they have made some catastrophic mistake?

They have started demanding their own homes (of course they don not care if Germans are rendered homeless). They hate Germans, they hate Europeans, they hate humanity (all non-Muslims). What does Germany expect? Love? Understanding? Politeness?

It now makes sense that the majority of the refugees are male. I think the immigration boards should go to the refugee camps in the Middle East and hand pick who comes in. All the refugees at the borders coming in should be turned back until an orderly and manageable situation can be made. Better to set up tents in the Middle East than be held ransom.

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Maryanne • Oct 26, 2015 at 18:53

How dare these ingrates demand anything. Send them back to wherever they came from. Europe does not need these aggressive, mysogynistic people.

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Margo Perry • Oct 26, 2015 at 16:59

I am sorry to hear of all the violence and ungratefulness. It is very simple. Do what other countries are doing in making it so they don't want to stay. Most of these people are not really refugees. they think they can come to countries and demand ------ don't think so.

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daniq1983 Margo Perry • Dec 8, 2016 at 09:46

Just observing these facts you can see what kind of people they are. If they are doing all this mess after a couple of month of arrival, imagine what they will do in the long run...

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Paul Hosse • Oct 26, 2015 at 15:53

Germany, and the rest of Europe, had better get a handle on this and quickly, otherwise, they will soon be the strangers in their own land. Remember, these aren't polite "requests" they're making. These are ultimatiums. Soon they will be demanding no beer or pork products, no ringing of church bells or that women cover themselves and "submit" to their laws and status as third class citizens. Germany and Europe must act quickly and firmly. German politicans need to grow a backbone or whatever else it takes and take charge of the situation. Better to risk some violence now rather than lots of violence later.

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JoeP • Oct 26, 2015 at 10:58

I man. You woman. I go first." — Muslim male with a full shopping cart at the supermarket."

I wish this guy would have tried this with my wife! She would have flattened him!

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Mike • Oct 25, 2015 at 23:15

I'm sure that if a few thousand were deported for bad behaviour, the rest would fall into line.

I'd give ONE warning for massively rude behaviour (like cutting in line, mistreating women, etc), then off you go. Anything violent, off you go. Yes, it's a bit unfair, but the situation HAS to be brought under control.

Trust me, they'd get polite fast. One finger on a woman = free ticket home, refugee claim cancelled, never allowed to make another one. Within two weeks, you'd see the rape rate of refugees would be BELOW that of natives.

BUT there has to be willingness to enforce, harshly and perhaps unfairly at first, in order to get things under control. Law and Order != Justice in these types of circumstances, and there would be some innocent victims of vindictive citizens, for example. But it would work.

It won't happen. They'll run wild and go feral.

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Annabelle Wightman Mike • Oct 26, 2015 at 20:28

What is wrong with common sense? You Must set up decency laws and see that they are followed. The longer such hideous actions are pandered to, the more arrogant they become. And Barack Obama is setting up 100,000 (or more ) to USA... Screw them, let them live in their countries.

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R Salman Mike • Oct 27, 2015 at 20:07

These are lawless people, who did not learn how to preserve the integrity of their homeland, therefore it is unrealistic to expect from them to ever want to preserve the integrity of the host country which they invaded. Muslims will not be told by non Muslim how to behave. The one and only effective solution us to simply ship them back to where they came from ASAP. I feel terribly sorry for the average Germans who are fighting against these invaders in order to preserve the principles and the integrity which they inherited from their ancestors.

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Anna Mike • Oct 27, 2015 at 20:33

I cannot understand Germans / How they allow to be treated by Muslim migrants this way. It is below my comprehension. They don't like / they demand / they are sent back as fast as possible. In present situation as it is Muslims will become more aggressive, even more demanding! One day Germans will realize they are second class citizens and have NOTHING TO SAY in their own country. Germany is lost already.

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Denniks Thompson • Oct 25, 2015 at 23:10

Germany now is in a World of Hurt>> these so-called better life seekers are invading Europe>>> wake-up and send these people back to their home land>>>> Europe will fall under to this invasion of Muslim plague >>> no women no children just young men who could not protect their own country yet demand that Europe/Germany take care of them so that they can invade and spread their message of stone/age rants >>> please send them BACK !!!!

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casper • Oct 24, 2015 at 22:45

We of the West should be grateful that our would-be conquerors and masters are such rude and obnoxious ingrates. The second-worst thing that could happen would be for the enemy to pretend to be nice, and act grateful for the gift of a continent. The worst thing would be if they pretended to "assimilate" and patiently accepted the jizzya offered in the form of "relief", and a life on welfare enabling them to spend full-time organizing their sudden attack when they achieved critical mass. Thank god they are incapable of gratitude towards those they consider to be slaves. It is our only chance to survive.

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Harvey • Oct 24, 2015 at 18:36

After reading this well researched article it seems that the above applies. The answer to all this is to send the complainers back from where they came from. All I know is that if you are under such persecution from the country you came from then you should be great full for a country that accepts you and allows you the freedom to carry on your life without fear of persecution.

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Jac • Oct 24, 2015 at 15:11

It is incredulous that Angela Merkel would subject German citizens to such barbarity. She has obviously never heard the Rudyard Kipling quote "East is east, west is west, and never the twain shall meet".

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VDM • Oct 24, 2015 at 14:39

Let them go on hunger strike... Who cares!

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Vivienne Leijonhufvud • Oct 24, 2015 at 14:22

As always Soeren Kern has his finger on the pulse. Pity European and Scandinavian leaders don't!

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James Buck • Oct 24, 2015 at 13:00

If one invites asylum seekers into your country, they then enjoy the right to be treated as any other citizen which includes the right to have their beliefs accepted and respected. This includes proper understanding and acceptance that the host nation's women are unclean and second class persons in their homeland. Men first, women second, I see no problem with that and you need to be more sensitive and learn your place. As they have arrived in Germany you simply have to accept the situation and make the best of it.

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David James Buck • Apr 4, 2016 at 12:36

That most Muslims will not integrate is clear. Malmo, Sweden with a 50% Muslim population and it's enclaves. Brussels with their Muslim suburbs. Towns and cities across Europe have had the little enclaves for decades yet all of a sudden everybody thinks that they will integrate? The koran explicitly forbids Muslims to mingle with kuffars so what makes you think that all of a sudden they will integrate? Islam is a violent, political ideology masquerading as a peaceful religion. Are all you Germans totally ignorant?

You invited all these people now deal with the invading army who show as a whole no respect for your culture or you as a person. You are a kuffar. Remember your place. The more you cave in to demands the more they are going to demand and the more radical they will get with their demands. Do you personally negotiate with somebody holding a gun to you head? You have nothing to bargain with so show no fear and let fate take over. Yet Germans bend over backwards for ungrateful people time and time again. I have no sympathy for you Germany. You asked for this. If you did not then show your opposition at the ballot box. That is the only thing ruling politicians are afraid of since they think in terms of short term only. How do I get elected and once elected how do I stay in power till my term runs out. That is all politicians care about. Nothing else.

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KD Punshon • Oct 24, 2015 at 11:55

I have been educating myself about Islam since coming to the UK from Canada. I found this very good blog as well as Gatestone - http://nocompulsion.com/a-warning-to-the-west-a-voice-from-the-heart-of-the-islamic-world/.

What can be done when our politicians defend Islam, our judicial system appeases it, our NHS changes their rules for it, our food system changes for it and our own Christian brothers and sisters scream for more to come? Isn't it obvious that Islam will never tolerate or embrace our culture? Now we have a Muslim running for the Mayor of London and Londoners think nothing of this. Oh God please save us from our head in the sand "tolerance"!!

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LindyLou • Oct 24, 2015 at 11:18

Thank you Soeren Kern and Gatestone for another comprehensive, educational article. I am so relieved that Angela Merkel was not successful in gaining a Nobel peace prize or humanitarian award for this suicidal immigration policy. Her authoritarian attitude of bullying everyone in her country and also EU countries to accept this reckless open immigration policy is outrageous! The flood gates have been forced open and the authorities have no idea of who is arriving in Europe! Merkel is aiding and abetting the ruthless human traffickers who are profiting from this open door policy. The media televise and show pictures of poor Syrian families, who understandably want to escape the atrocities of their never-ending civil war.

The facts that Gatestone highlight and no other media outlet will reveal; the majority of the arrivals are young men from Afghanistan, Pakistan and African countries, who will become violent when their 'entitlements' are not coming quickly enough. We, the European nationals will then be given lectures by the left elitists about the inequalities and lack of job opportunities for these disadvantaged young men (irrespective of the fact that they think themselves too good for the apprenticeships and job training offered) which serve to put law-abiding Germans and other European nationals in their place. All bad behaviour by these ungrateful louts will be explained away! Any further concerns will be shouted down as right-wing, racist commentaries, so that everyone remains quiet. The taxpayers will just have to live with the consequences of their authoritarian governments policies.

The future is frightening -- these single men will bring their wives and families, increasing the numbers of dependents who will insist on their right to free entitlements, sucking the system dry without any positive input to their new homeland. Mosques will be built in Europe funded by Saudi Arabia so that their radical wahabi doctrine will ensure that no assimilation can be achieved.

A suggested solution? Get the details from the migrants of the traffickers and have Interpol arrest them. Return all future arrivals. Refugees already in Europe should be given priority and given shelter on the understanding that when their country's war ends, they will be repatriated -- the rest of the migrant chancers should be returned immediately to their own countries. Immigration should require that the applicants swear to abide by and accept the laws, customs and traditions of their host country. Citizenship will be granted after a probation period of 10 years, failure to do this will result in deportation. In future, we should be outspoken to ensure that all elected officials answer directly to their people. The EU non-elected elite should instead be voted in democratically by the population in order to make them accountable.

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Rivka • Oct 24, 2015 at 04:02

The Germans and Europe did not want the Jews and got the Muslims instead. Let them enjoy the difference.

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Luis • Oct 24, 2015 at 02:50

1. The description of these cases in the article make us think that these immigrants don't sound like desperate people; rather they sound like people who have been prepared in some way to demand goodies. The hell with them. Send them back to their primitive lives. Why should the Western, advanced, countries have to pay for the internecine battles of Mohammedanism?

2. The description of these cases also make it obvious that their way of living based on their ideological Mohammedanism simply are not compatible with the advanced Western ways of living. And we cannot anticipate that there ever will be any compatibility. We here in the US see cases of the primitive Mohammedanism in action every day and are sick of it, and have no desire to wait for compatibility to sink into their ideological thinking.

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Sunny • Oct 24, 2015 at 01:54

Germany and indeed the whole of Europe and the world at large are giving in to ISIS. They are selling off their future generations to Islam. They are laying the groundwork for Armageddon. God help us.

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Jody Voelker • Oct 24, 2015 at 01:03

If the refugees are so unsatisfied with a roof over their heads, 3 meals a day and bathroom facilities, they can't have been as persecuted as one might think. Instead of being grateful for protection and freedom, they are hateful and demanding... Send them back where they came from and do it quickly before they cause more problems. As the old saying goes, "When in Rome, do as the Romans do". It does not say that "when in Rome, demand that all Romans conform to your ideology and traditions". Disgraceful!

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Jude Meritus Jody Voelker • Oct 25, 2015 at 14:28

Thanks to Gatestone and all your supporters, of which I am one.Either Germany and EU governments have a hidden agenda here, or they have painted themselves into a corner with their hope of using immigrants as a new work-force and misguided multi-culturalism obviously not shared by the large influx of ungrateful trouble-makers.It shouldn't take long to find out as this chaos in Germany, Sweden etc will cause a complete undermining of the EU unless something unexpected turns up.
Will this be the long prophesied satanic conspiracy of the Anti-Christ who will miraculously impose a solution?
Time to start finding out the real scenario and the end-game which is in Magna Carta R.I.P? free on Amazon worldwide (only in English at present). We can all wring our hands and post our anger but it will be to no avail until we see that all of this is absolutely in line with the Bible! Its hope is our only hope!

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Carmel Metcalf • Oct 24, 2015 at 00:50

I do not want this type of behaviour coming to Australia. It is the duty of the German government to give a true account of violent behaviour by the so called 'refugees'. Especially the violent attacks on non-Muslims. This is an planned invasion, and it is happening all over Europe.

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Tanya Citizen Carmel Metcalf • Oct 24, 2015 at 12:39

Yes, its definitely an invasion, and organised too. Thing is, some ordinary citizens can see this but the governments and politicians cannot. Something strange going on. I think its too late for Germany.

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enzo • Oct 24, 2015 at 00:46

Cheaper to send them all back, these are not true refugees, complaining and making demands.

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todd • Oct 24, 2015 at 00:28

I can't wait for those Christians to find Allah...they let him in. They have already won without ever firing a shot...brilliant only divine intervention could have allowed this. Goodbye old Europe. The caliphate is upon us.

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Tanya Citizen todd • Oct 24, 2015 at 13:24

Yes, agree, a pretty perfect invasion, a modern day Trojan Horse and the Germans couldn't see it coming. Where were their "intelligence" agents ?

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Veda C. • Oct 24, 2015 at 00:11

When I was young, there was a saying "beggars can't be choosers." Those ungrateful migrants ought to be ashamed. And Germany, rather than explaining or apologizing, should tell them that if they don't like what they're offered, they can just go back--and then kick them out.

There is also another saying that's still around, "When in Rome, do as the Romans do." These boorish louts need to be taught that women are at least as valuable as men, and that Western values include politeness. Then, if a migrant disrespects a woman (or anyone), he should be taken off for "retraining." If he refuses, send him back where he came from.

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Almuth Hauptmann Veda C. • Oct 25, 2015 at 01:50

It would be quite within the rights of the German government to make re-education classes mandatory. What the law is, how the banking system works, what not to throw in the toilet, and manners, too. You come to my house, you live under my rules!

My brother died when gentrification hit the appartment building. He could not go anywhere to demand a free flat and food, Berlin 2008.

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Veda C. • Oct 24, 2015 at 00:10

When I was young, there was a saying, "beggars can't be choosers." Those ungrateful migrants ought to be ashamed. And Germany, rather than explaining or apologizing, should tell them that if they don't like what they're offered, they can just go back--and then kick them out.

There is also another saying that's still around: "When in Rome, do as the Romans do." These boorish louts need to be taught that women are at least as valuable as men, and that Western values include politeness. Then, if a migrant disrespects a woman (or anyone), he should be taken off for "retraining." If he refuses, send him back where he came from.

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Sherri Palmer • Oct 23, 2015 at 23:46

This is insane...keep on letting these so-called 'refugees' boss you around and demand that you do more and more for them! And, you will get the knives that they carry in your back! What is wrong with you? Send them all back...they act as though they are some hot commodity that YOU have to live with! Is that true? Why are you allowing them to disrespect your graciousness to them? Their Islamic countries on the Gulf states did not want them...any reason why? Muslims are very difficult to live with, they seem to think that they can demand anything they want and they do it all of the time and the hosts countries meet their demands; so, it must work! Don't be fools! Stand up for yourselves and send them back where they came from...they are on a permanent vacation in your countries!

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Gnarlodious • Oct 23, 2015 at 22:56

Just remember, they came having heard florid reports of the affluence awaiting them, mostly from smugglers out the get their money. They are simply the victims of swindlers, and now they are Germany's headache.

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Gillian • Oct 23, 2015 at 22:24

Thank you, Gatestone, for continuing to expose exactly what is happening in Europe, as facts are scarce in the public media! Please continue to supply us with the TRUTH in these matters. The attitudes of these people are absolutely outrageous, and these men are treating the goodwill and principles of countries like Germany with absolute disdain. They must not be allowed to remain, and when the wars in their own countries are finished, they should return.

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Melissa Franklin • Oct 23, 2015 at 22:01

One has to wonder what these people did to have their (murderous) leaders hate them so much.

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iDecimus • Oct 23, 2015 at 20:35

The Germans are learning slowly that their perceived superiority has failed them yet again. And yet again they are destroying Europe for the third and last time.

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Judith Warren-Brown • Oct 23, 2015 at 20:29

The policy of taking in so many young male refugees was not critically thought out. It was a rash, emotionally based decision which now has very negative consequences. These young men would have done well to have stayed in their own countries and worked or fought to make things better. No sympathy here.

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steven L • Oct 23, 2015 at 20:19

Soon the migrants in sufficient numbers will demand that the Europeans become dhimmis in their own countries!!!

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usman ahmad • Oct 23, 2015 at 19:38

IN islam they are taught to be grateful if they are not sent them back. They will keep on pushing the button. It's the greed, nothing to do with religion.

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KLD • Oct 23, 2015 at 19:37

So, it's no longer just the United States, where citizens are seen as arrogant and entitled. This attitude has now become commonplace with refugees that weeks ago had nothing, but now want everything. What a 'give me' world we live in. Folks, like those in Germany and Sweden, are genuinely trying to help people and now those same refugees are rightfully being seen as leaches. When did humanity become so ungrateful???

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Anna • Oct 23, 2015 at 18:41

Wow. Those signs. The perfect lettering, perfect German. Why, it's almost as if someone else made up those bedsheets for these poor, deprived illegal migrants. Who could that be? Could it be radical left agitators? Perhaps even the ones who were at the last Pegida demonstration and beat a peaceful Pegida participant into the hospital? The ones who, in the past, have been paid from government funds for their counter-demonstrations? Are they being paid now to agitate and incite these migrants into demanding their just due from the cold-hearted, stingy Germans? Aren't their laws against inciting this type of behavior?

Is the first question asked, when migrants complain, "Do you want to go back to your country"? No? Well, why not? Don't these poor people deserve an alternative to remaining in these disappointing conditions?

Have any of them ever been heard to say, perhaps, "Our smugglers and media lied to us"? and then maybe send a picture of their tent house back home?

If Pegida anti-migrant policy demonstrators purchase tickets to the observation deck of Berlin's television tower, what would happen to them? Would they be released? No? Why not? Because only certain groups are allowed to demonstrate, and the government decides who those groups are?

Is Germany really a democracy?

So many questions, so few answers.

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Vanzola • Oct 23, 2015 at 18:03

Send them back. It's not good for Europe. These people don't understand our rules and have no respect for women. Not acceptable in the 21st century.

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Sherri Palmer Vanzola • Oct 24, 2015 at 00:18

These 'refugee' thugs should have stayed and fought for their country and it is speculated that they left because they did not want to fight. So, they go to every country, demanding, insulting, killing, raping, you name it! I have no empathy for them, they want to be taken care of while insulting women who are shopping that they should be in front of the woman because the 'refugee' is a man! Get these misguided throwbacks to the 6th or 7th century out of your country!

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Ivan Gur-Arie • Oct 23, 2015 at 18:00

I did not know that the term "chutzpah" is an Arabic word. The stupidity of the EU leaders is profound. Anyone could have told them that this pity parade from the Middle East will cause devastating results. Yet Merkel and Hollande and company march on tone deaf to realities. The equal danger is that this will cause the rise of right wing nationalism and attendant violence. Why did these Muslims not go to their brothers in other Muslim lands? Somehow the Muslims get violent when a non Muslim allegedly hurts another Muslim, but when it comes to helping a devastated Muslim, then let others do it--not in my backyard. Now EU, you experience the reality of the aggrieved Muslim hand. Understand what Israel goes to on a daily basis. I could not wish this crisis on a better people than the EU. Apparently, Hungary understood what it would have to deal with and said a loud NO.

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merc jookit • Oct 23, 2015 at 17:38

"We have to make a tremendous effort..."

The only effort these countries need to make is to immediately rid their country of this threat. There will be no co-existence, no mutual respect, no learning of different cultural values. Don't you understand these people?

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mary schneider • Oct 23, 2015 at 15:24

We are no longer "helping people" we are kissing their ass. How can the goverments of Europe abandon their own people like this. A good majority of these people will not integrate because they choose not to. Any crimes or insults should immediately result in deportation. Why would we tolerate this and why are the rules different for the refugees. This will destroy the beautiful place we know as Europe. How sad for all the soldiers who died to make their countries what they are today. Shame on those who ALLOW this to happen.

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Carl • Oct 23, 2015 at 15:17

I once adopted a dog from a shelter that was more grateful than these animals. Not enough showers? They have no desire to assimilate and most are only looking for free handouts. If it is so bad in these countries that have taken them in, send them back from whence they came. Maybe they will have it better there.

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cbc • Oct 23, 2015 at 14:57

I have been reading many of these articles from Gatestone. Here in Canada, a liberal government was just elected and promises to bring in 25,000 of these refugees and asylum seekers by year's end. The newcomers that now are here already make demands and their wishes are granted. They now outnumber native born Canadians, so we will never be able to elect a conservative government again in this country. Also, we have given up many of our values and ways to appease these Muslims. Latest being one Pakistani Muslim lady who refused to show her face whilst receiving citizenship. God help us, and I am very frightened for the near and far future of our country, Canada.

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Chad • Oct 23, 2015 at 14:33

What is wrong with the German govt?? They have no room for current migrants, most will live in tents or warehouses, yet maybe a million more will be let in?!? German officials have lost their minds! These ungrateful army will burn, destroy, rape, etc. Welcome to Hell, Germany.

This is America's future, protest here, don't let it happen. I would expect ISIS to give these migrants weapons so they can start the takeover of Germany.

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Tanya Citizen Chad • Oct 24, 2015 at 12:41

Germany: what have you done ? I agree, Angela Merkel, in one fell swoop, has effectively destroyed Germany's future. This was/is an invasion. How come they cannot see this ? Dangerous, very, very....

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mary schneider • Oct 23, 2015 at 14:21

We are no longer "helping people" we are kissing their ass. How can the goverments of Europe abandon their own people like this. A good majority of these people will not integrate because they chose not to. Any crimes or insults should immediately result in deportation. Why would we tolerate this and why are the rules different for the refugees. This will destroy the beautiful place we know as Europe. How sad for all the soldiers who died to make their countries what they are today. Shame on those who ALLOW this to happen.

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James Neis • Oct 23, 2015 at 13:55

Greetings from USA, personally I just became aware of Islam, very disturbing how they push their way into getting what they want. Scoundrels. No thank you Islam, move along. The people of USA will have none of it.

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Louise Whiteford • Oct 23, 2015 at 13:00

The influx of Muslims into the US will be a disaster. Why should we change our culture to please a group whose religion has kept them in the dark ages? The once flourishing period of Muslim enlightenment died long ago. Friends of mine who visited Afghanistan many years ago described it as in biblical times. The male/husband walked ahead with the donkey and cart loaded down and his wife walked many paces behind weighed down with her pack. Why have we put Saudi Arabia on a pedestal? Even the King may not allow a woman to be a cashier. What hope is there for a country that will not allow a woman a decent job. Little girls marry old men. We have nothing in common with the Muslim culture. Whether we refused to recognize it or not this nation was founded on Judeo-Christian beliefs. If the Muslim religion is so great, let them care for their own. Those nations are loaded with oil revenues.

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Barbara Goldin • Oct 23, 2015 at 12:34

You won't find this reported on any of America's news networks -- none of them! And, just think, the President of the United States has agreed to allow 200,000 of these refugees into the United States. I suppose they will also sue all the levels of government and business owners in the United States who don't process their applications fast enough, or get them into real apartments and houses quick enough.

For a mass full of people who are fleeing worn-torn areas of the world; and, who are reported to have undergone untold suffering, they sure seem to know enough of Western Laws and customs in order for these refugees to take over the countries they are fleeing to; and, at the same time, continuing to treat their women, wives and female children as no nothings; and we in the West allow them to do that upon arrival to our countries as refugees. Just think what these refugees will do when they become legal residents or citizens of the countries they continue to flee to like flies.

Although this is going to be a lengthy process, I'm going to print out this article of Gatestone, study it; and, cite in my e-mails, and also the snail mail when writing to our Senators, Congressmen, Congresswomen; and, I'm also going to write to all the Governors in the United States about this. I might even write to the UN about this matter also even though the UN might throw my correspondence in the trash can.

I can't do anything to change the world by myself; but I'm going to try any way.

Barbara Goldin-TEXAS!

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Alana • Oct 23, 2015 at 12:09

What would happen if a German citizen did what these migrants are doing? The law should extend to all equally.

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David • Oct 23, 2015 at 11:57

The more you give, the more ridiculous the "demands". If I was living on the generosity of another country, you can be sure I would be "demanding" nothing and would not be flouting the laws and customs of my hosts. I am not a right winger, I am an old fashioned liberal who believes in helping people who cannot help themselves until they are in a position where they can begin to pay their way, but "demands" -- they need a reality check.

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Pauline • Oct 23, 2015 at 11:37

When will Europe realise and accept that these migrants will not integrate, but will dominate if the authorities don't act to enforce them to conform or go back to their countries of origin.

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Michael Waugh • Oct 23, 2015 at 11:11

They think they are superior to us born in the civilised West, especially our women. One cannot just dump Muslims in Europe in such large numbers. Once they are settled, they become aggressive. I hear that in Sweden, the locals are being ejected from social housing to make room. Germany will be a ruined country, as is Sweden.

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Tanya Citizen Michael Waugh • Oct 24, 2015 at 12:44

This was a well planned invasion. It's too late for Germany. They will not return/be removed or be evicted. They will use the wonderful German laws to make sure of that. The Muslims will bring their new way of life to Germany.... it is happening already, 80% young males...

Of course, Sweden, with its "guilt" policies, left-wing, spineless and bleeding heart attitude towards all, from terrorists to rapists, have already secured their demise.

I thought the Germans were smarter..

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bill carr • Oct 23, 2015 at 11:07

The saying beggars cannot be choosers does not seem to exist in Arabic. Neither is gratitude a part of their thinking.

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LARA • Oct 23, 2015 at 10:59

Germany has killed millions of Jews and now they want to replace them with millions of Muslims. And this is not only the case in Germany, but we see it also in other countries like Sweden. Look at Malmö which was once home to a large community of Jews. Today many have fled and those who stayed behind have to face violent attacks by migrants from the Middle East. Strange that nobody in the Swedish government stands up to these crimes. Nobody in Europa is standing up. No, instead they are planning to bring in more Muslims. That is why they have open borders and we hear politicians saying..."Islam belongs to Germany" and obviously to the rest of Europe. Europe will never be the same!!!

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Peter Hyatt • Oct 23, 2015 at 10:55

Somewhere, behind these suits, are German lawyers profiting.

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Haloge • Oct 23, 2015 at 10:49

Quite frankly, is anyone in their right mind really surprised at events?

Angela Merkel issued an open invitation to all and sundry to join the European House Party that she didn't really consult the neighbours about. Now that every man jack and his prayer mat have actually answered the call of the personal Profit, expectations -- house, job, car, money, mosque, whatever -- are not really being met in actuality.

To be honest, it is about time these freeloaders were forcibly stopped at the border, the people traffickers caught and summarily executed, the Turks kicked out of Nato before they have a revolution or start a war with Russia, and the immigrants already here returned asap to their countries of origin, no ifs no buts. If not, this situation will get really serious, and well beyond just a problem, which even the military may be hard pressed to solve.

So far the only person making any serious sense is Viktor Orban, and the Central European States. No doubt the many years under Soviet authoritarianism has made them acutely aware of authoritarian BS when it arises, even if it comes out of Berlin or Brussels.

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Tanya Citizen Haloge • Oct 24, 2015 at 12:50

You have said it all - couldn't agree more !! In my opinion this is an invasion, well planned. I think Turkey is playing a role here, as well as the "hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil" in the glass towers in Brussels. Hungary and some other Eastern European countries are the only ones with their eyes WIDE open. They have only just come out of centuries of control. Germany will have to learn to live the Muslim way, soon.

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unique • Oct 23, 2015 at 10:46

All these problems can be blamed on Angela Merkel.

All I can say is enjoy your new neighbors..........

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Lara • Oct 23, 2015 at 10:29

Germany is finished and it is all their own fault. Their own doing. Germany is also a master of always turning against their own people as we have seen in the 2nd world war. Now they want to fill up Germany with millions of people they don't even know. Just for the heck of it, and to show the world how good they are. It will backfire and after that nothing will ever be the same again.

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Ed in North Texas • Oct 23, 2015 at 10:20

How long will the German people put up with this insanity? All indications are the answer is "Far too long." When US citizens can't put a stop to this sort of lunacy (on a far, far smaller scale), there is scant hope that more complaisant/compliant Europeans will force a change in government policy. Sad commentary on modern life and culture.

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David • Oct 23, 2015 at 10:20

I can't help but think how these reports compare with how Europeans treated Jews in the 30's and 40's. Europe is getting exactly what it deserves. This portends the disappearance of Europe as we know it, which is likely to also happen in North America unless this Asylum scam is terminated immediately.

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Graham Davies • Oct 23, 2015 at 10:19

You reap what you sow! I would suggest that Frau Merkel was forced to confront the situations described in this article directly on a daily basis as ordinary citizens have to. The self entitlement of this influx of people as opposed to any sort of gratitude is simply jaw dropping. Their expectations should be nipped in the bud. Foolish judges should not be permitting law suits against the German state for a start. People entering a country ILLEGALLY should not have such a right.

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Old Timer • Oct 23, 2015 at 10:02

I was going to Austria/Germany region to visit my ancestral home "Haldenwangerkoff". Not now, it is too dangerous and unsettled.

Merkel has made a BIG mistake along with other world elitist Christian Democrat political parties. At the rate of progression of the great unwashed, liberalism will fail and National Socialism will return.

Great article, I look forward to more insights.

Old Timer

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Tanya Citizen Old Timer • Oct 26, 2015 at 11:09

I agree, not a good idea to travel to most parts of Western Europe now. Its a mess and dangerous too. Even a small town like Passau is overrun with the invaders.

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Randall • Oct 23, 2015 at 09:12

It is also time for "Americans" to revolt. Believe it or not, the monsters still can't kill us all.

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Michael Fox • Oct 23, 2015 at 09:07

The good news is, Adolph Hitler is turning in his grave. So much for the Aryan race. Goodbye Germany.

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Red Baron • Oct 23, 2015 at 09:02

Angela Merkel made a big mistake in agreeing to take in hundreds of thousands of Middle East refugees when Saudi Arabia refused to take any. She should have known that they would not appreciate what Germany did for them. German citizens are going to suffer because of the outrageous demands of these heathens who are going to start a crime wave in Germany that will result in assaults, rapes, thefts and destruction of property. The Middle East refugees were not the responsibility of Europe. The refugees should have gone to Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Egypt and all of the other Middle East countries.

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Keeper of the Crystals Red Baron • Oct 24, 2015 at 07:29

The blame for this insane situation lies solely at the feet of the UN. The UN have pushed Europe and Western countries to take the Syrians fleeing their own country. But where was the UN in stopping Al Assad and his forces inflicting genocide? Where was the UN when Assad used chemicals and bombed the citizens of Syria?

Why would the UN expect Europe and Western countries to take in a majority of Muslims who should be more appropriately housed within countries of their own faith? Why have the majority of Muslim countries remained silent and restricted in their offers of assistance. Sure Lebanon and Turkey have taken millions, but where are the other Muslim leaders offering assistance. Do they think trouble is brewing, so remain silent because it is not just Syrians but an onslaught from everywhere.

The UN is a failed body. It sanctimoniously preaches to Europe and the western countries that they need to do more but fail to push the Arab States. European and western countries bound by the UN are committed to house, feed and support 'alleged' refugees at the expense of their citizens. We are reading of disruption, disobedience and disregard of laws by a large number of migrants because they consider their needs are not being met. Really? Governments need to take a hard look at what they are exposing their citizens to. Whose needs do you give priority to? Would you put the needs of your own citizens second to those who have come to your country to better their own needs without having contributed anything, nor likely to in the future? Wake up to yourselves.

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Fred • Oct 23, 2015 at 09:00

That Germany of today is learning very quickly to differentiate between a productive Jew they murdered and an aggressive, ungrateful, demanding, new invited "colonist". As time goes by, these demand expectations will grow high. As the anecdotes of the above article, it will be as in Sweden where the confiscation of properties is rife to satisfy the demands of the poor "professional victims ". Anybody who opposes this disaster gets labeled a extremist. After all Merkel & the faceless European Union politicians made wild promises the invading professional victims want to hold the by their word."" ..and an error that made produced a greater shock, now the Germans have to take stock."

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Tanya Citizen Fred • Oct 24, 2015 at 12:59

I agree, Germany made 2 mistakes: getting rid of the Jews (just check how many nobel prizes they have notched up, and not pitiful "peace" prizes, I mean scientific and medical inventions) and secondly, allowing an invasion of Muslims. Unbelievable, what a disaster.

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Tanya Citizen Fred • Oct 26, 2015 at 11:07

Yes...Germany wanted the Jews out, now they are allowing a Muslim invasion. Wow ! Unbelievable. How self-destructive can a country be ?Only Sweden beats that.

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David Walker • Oct 23, 2015 at 08:59

"Klöckner is now calling for Germany to pass a new law that requires migrants and refugees to integrate into German society."

No chance.

Germany hasn't realised yet that it is well on the way to be an Islamic state with Sharia law.

If they don't wake up soon, it is German citizens that will have to integrate with Islamic society, not vice versa.

And after Germany...

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Keith • Oct 23, 2015 at 08:58

Lets face it, Islam and the people who follow it are incompatible with western culture and freedoms.

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DockyWocky • Oct 23, 2015 at 08:52

Didn't take them too long to act like they are Allah's gift to the poor stupid Germans, did it?

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Jack Baretti • Oct 23, 2015 at 08:49

Germany and the rest of Europe is on the way out as civilized democracies. Muslim take over is inevitable. Good Bye Europe.

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bill carr • Oct 23, 2015 at 08:37

The immigrants to the USA in the 19th Century who also came in large numbers had to make the best of it, live in the poorest accommodation and take whatever jobs they could get. These migrants are a different breed, they expect the best of everything and they do not want to work for it either.As you sow so shall you reap Germany, this is only the start.

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Christine • Oct 23, 2015 at 08:30

When all this migration "plot" began and Mrs. Merkel opened the doors to them to be welcomed by the German people (without any consultation whatsoever), I said "This time next year the German people will absolutely regret this whole incident and will probably be on their knees praying for the migrants to go away". Even I am surprised that the influx consisted of so many people (mainly young, fit men who appear to have left their womenfolk to their terrible fate back home). I wonder what would happen if there was an election in Germany tomorrow. If ever there was a damned good reason for the UK to get out of this shambles, this is it.

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Tanya Citizen Christine • Oct 24, 2015 at 13:03

Germany will have to start praying before next year. There is trouble coming, its already there. Unfortunately they will not go away, they are there to stay. The reason why the young men came: its an invasion. They are preparing the way, the women will be next. Then their way of life, their food, sharia law, the works..... As for the UK. They should run, now, if its not too late already.

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Bill Inaz • Oct 23, 2015 at 08:05

Looks like the 'Euros' are finally seeing what this is all about. The question is do they have the wherewithal and the guts to stop it? I'm guessing no.

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Dorothy Davies • Oct 23, 2015 at 08:01

Surely the German people will not put up with this insulting behaviour! The migrants are clearly misinformed about the West and this must be put right. Those who obviously hate the host country should be deported without delay. Only draconian measures will save Germany now. I fear that soon there will be civil war in more places than Germany and it is the fault of humanist governments who are ignorant of Islam and of human nature.

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Tanya Citizen Dorothy Davies • Oct 24, 2015 at 13:06

No Dorothy, the invaders know very well about the West: they have come not to learn it's ways but to destroy it. They bring the Muslim way, no discussion about that. There may well be war, I agree... If you do not defend your home you loose all your rights to own a home.

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Keeper of the Crystals • Oct 23, 2015 at 07:41

When those who claim they come to seek shelter, impose demands, then look very carefully as to whom you open your doors.

Complacency, open door policy, putting the needs of others before your own citizens will only engender resentment.

The UN has the expectation that every country will take on board so-called refugees, fleeing persecution. Some are no more than economic refugees seeking a better life for themselves at the expense of others. Some are infiltrating the ranks of refugees to hide their true identities as radical fundamentalists with no intention of integrating in to a society prepared to accept them. They have their own agenda to cause disruption and ill will.

Why would governments expose their civilians to the abuse, civil disobedience and hatred these people openly display and yet disregard the rights and liberties of their own citizens? The UN is a failed entity. It has the expectation that countries will continue to pour in funds so it can prop up despotic rulers, corrupt governments, take foreign aid that benefits the corrupt governments at the expense of their people who continue to languish in poverty, hunger and ill health.

Why would any sane, free thinking government contribute to a UN festering with deceit and double standards?

Unless this mass exodus of humanity is stopped in its tracks, Europe as we know it, will disappear. No country can sustain the numbers of immigrants who will require food, shelter, welfare and education. It is not only that, but it will be the demands above the basic requirements that they will seek and those governments will not be able to provide for their own citizens as well as those infiltrating their borders.

Those criticising the onslaught of immigrants are labelled racists but in all honesty, these people have the foresight to see what the consequences will be for their countries. Deny it, in ignorance.

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Danny Brand • Oct 23, 2015 at 07:33

Sounds like the migrants are not happy, why not send them back home?

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Hanna • Oct 23, 2015 at 07:21

Next time they (the invading "visitors") will demand BREAKFAST IN BED. What is wrong with the German people (and their government), that they are so determined to commit national suicide? This disastrous situation will end up being Germany's second Holocaost. And yet, the LEFT, around the world, thinks that the Jews and the tiny state of ISRAEL are the world's greatest problems. Thank you Soeren Kern and Gatestone. Keep up the good work.

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Tanya Citizen Hanna • Oct 26, 2015 at 11:13

Yes, Germany, Sweden and some others, being dictated to by Brussels, have formed an evil and unholy alliance with the Liberals/Leftists/Socialists. Anyone opposing them is racist/nationalist/to be hated, labelled and "re-educated". Israel of course is their main "whipping boy". When will people wake up to this great Hoax ?

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Sid • Oct 23, 2015 at 07:17

There is the same problem in Israel with the courts overturning goverment/Knesset decisions regarding the illegal Sudanese and Eritrean illegals.It certainly looks like a well prepared plan and project to flood the west with Muslims as the indeginous population abandon Christianity for the new religion of "Human Rights".

They have forgotten the biblical injunction of those who are kind to the wicked will suffer.

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John Collignon • Oct 23, 2015 at 07:15

Is the German government so weak willed and afraid of criticism ? If this is being reported correctly, this has got to be the most pathetic example of leadership by Merkel since Obama took command of the US military !!

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Tanya Citizen John Collignon • Oct 24, 2015 at 13:12

Yes, Germany, Brussels, UK, and some others are responding out of fear, caution, and indecisiveness. Exactly the conditions favourable for an invasion. It has happened already. Question is: will the Germans give in and adapt to the Muslims or will there be a war ?Its the one, or........ the other.

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David Ashton • Oct 23, 2015 at 07:14

What is a "refugee"? Someone who is in danger of losing life and limb as a result of conflict for which he and his family is not responsible, and who needs to escape from the danger zone. It is not someone who goes abroad just to expect an easier life provided by the "host" society, still less is it someone who attacks the "host" society or seeks to import conflicts comparable to those in his country of origin (if known).

There is a case for the "international community" to organize temporary centers for refugees, with the original ostensible UNHCR aim of returning home as soon as possible, and for seeking an early end to conflicts which usually arise from cultural clash. What is not required, nor necessary, is what is happening in Germany, Sweden and England, especially as this well suits the renascent revolutionary left's exploitation of the situation; as the "anti-racist and multicultural" propaganda put it in London, some years ago, "Here to stay, here to fight!"

As for Germany, read the prediction of future "race war+class war" in "Hour of Decision" penned eight decades ago by Oswald Spengler (who was NOT a Hitler fan incidentally).

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Deirdre • Oct 23, 2015 at 07:08

Rather than specialising in internationally broadcasting a 'welcome-doormat' approach, that results in host citizens being 'walked all over' by the surly because they are not Muslim or are women, I hope that Angela Merkel and other 'encouragers' will internationally and robustly broadcast that anyone migrating MUST play by the rules of the host or keep away...then list some of those rules: no gender chauvinism, no non-Muslimophobia... (Well, she might put it more articulately than that :-)

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Sheldon Tupperman • Oct 23, 2015 at 07:07

...and this is only the beginning! I shudder just thinking what will become of all "those cute, sweet little children" 20 years from now thanks of the poisoning they will receive in their special schools, houses of prayer, cultural centers, clubs, etc. I hate to say this, but Mohammed, Genghis Khan, Hitler, Stalin, Jack the Ripper, and other individuals of the same ilk were once "sweet, cute, little children" too...European politicians have eyes and won't see, have ears and won't hear either...Europe's future is grim.

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bandoo • Oct 23, 2015 at 06:55

As expected. The European nations had permitted this influx not out of compassion. They wanted youngsters to work. Now 50-60 years down the line, most interesting consequences will be seen for which this hypocritical attitude will be responsibl e.We have had Bangla Deshi people coming into India in 1970 resulting in a war. We were paying for their maintenance for years and even now many crimes are being attributed to them.

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Basil Gunn • Oct 23, 2015 at 05:57

We have to stop these people coming. Start sending them back to their home countries into Western Europe. It has become an invasion and will end in bloodshed.

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Hanna Basil Gunn • Oct 24, 2015 at 03:07

What a wonderful readership you have!!! I read everyone of the above comments. They are ALL great, truthful and very interesting --- CONGRATULATION TO ALL THE WRITERS TOO!!! Sorry Angela Merkel -- you goofed this time.

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Carol Hanna • Apr 27, 2016 at 14:08

My folks visited Germany when I was growing up & took photos of mine fields. I still have them. This all sounds like new mine fields.